Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Why Microsoft develops lousy products?

Microsoft is a successful company by any standard one may want to judge, but often users are not found satisfied by quality of Microsoft products.

Why the quality of Microsoft's products is not to users satisfaction compared to quality of product of other companies ( say Apple)?

I found the answer in the following quote

Well, a lazy person can find an easy way to do the job but that easy way may not be the best way!

Easy way will come out in product quality sooner or later!

Compare this to Steve Jobs approach in Apple who prefers to have A team for the products.

“The Macintosh experience taught me that A players like to work only with other A players, which means you can’t indulge B players.” “It’s too easy as a team grows, to put up with a few B players, and they then attract a few more B players, and soon you will even have some C players.”But Microsoft has been successful. Isn't it? How can a company be successful for so long if its product quality is not the best?Answer is Business Model.What is the relation between Product and Business Model in success of company?Find out in business fiction book "Who is that lady?"

The book is about an idea that is converted into a billion dollar business, about a belief that an idea can be implemented and about formulating right strategy for converting an idea into a business. The plot harmoniously weaves around complex business fundamentals, required to set up, run and make a business successful, presented in lucid, easy to understand style. The novel is about implementation, about challenges that can be overcome, about success, about friendship, about passion, and about fun above all! All in all a hilarious and inspiring story on entrepreneurship and idea possibilities!

The book has got good and encouraging reviews from readers so far.

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Major Pooja Gupta says, “The book makes you think... if there is anything in this world which is impossible.”

Subir Dhar (Principal Consultant at Infosys) says, “This book will inspire India’s restless youth to take up entrepreneurship.”

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